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How to search for communities outside of kbin.social? [SOLVED] (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by such_lettuce7970@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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(and I mean if you don't already know the community name or url, just searching in general)

edit: [SOLVED}

edit edit: also, turns out what I was looking for "out there", someone just now created here on kbin: kbin.social/m/linuxmint

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[–] 401klaser@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Browse communities here: https://lemmyverse.net/communities

When you have found one you are interested in click the click to copy button.

Let's say for example you want to subscribe to "memes@lemmy.ml"

When you click to copy, "!memes@lemmy.ml" will be copied to your clipboard

In your browser enter https://kbin.social/m/community@instan.ce

So in this example it would be https://kbin.social/m/memes@lemmy.ml

Then hit enter, and subscribe!

[–] saplingtree@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried for [!linux@lemmy.ml](/c/linux@lemmy.ml) but it didn't work. What should I do?

[–] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

As @KoreanPerson said, you can try removing the exclamation. Otherwise, from what I've gathered on other servers, sometimes it's because servers haven't been federated between each other yet so you do the search and then wait a bit for the server to pick up and federate the other server. It should then come up in a search.

Personally I've found it a hit and miss on how much time you have to wait. Sometimes it's appeared clicking search a second time and others it's been days and still not appeared.

Also bear in mind that some servers are blocked by others so they'll never appear in the search and you can't access it regardless of the method used to 'discover' a community.